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PHILADELPHIA: 

I'  II  1  X  T  E  D    V  Y    H  K  N  11  Y    ]>> .    A  S  H  M  E  A  D, 

X'.s.'1 


SPEECH  OF  A  BRAYE  OLD  PATRIOT. 


A  VOICE  FROM  THE  ARMY. 


ON   FOREIGN   INTERFERENCE. 


FOR  THE  CROAKERS. 


THE  WORDS  OF  A  PATRIOT  SOLDIER. 


CROMWELL  ON  DESTRUCTIVE 
CONSERVATISM. 


PUSILLANIMOUS  PEACE. 


SCENE  IN  THE  ILLINOIS  LEGISLATURE. 

1   SPEECH  OF  A  BRAVE  OLD  PATRIOT, 

TERRIBLE  PHILIPPIC   AGAINST  TRAITORS. 


The  Springfield  (Illinois)  correspondent  of  the  Chicago  Tri- 
bune, under  date  of  February  14,  writes  as  follows : — A 
great  sensation  was  created  by  a  speech  by  Mr.  Funk,  one  of 
the  richest  farmers  in  the  State,  a  man  who  pays  over  three 
thousand  dollars  per  annum  taxes  towards  the  support  of  the 
government.  The  lobby  and  gallery  were  crowded  with  spec- 
tators. Mr.  Funk  rose  to  object  to  trifling  resolutions,  which 
had  been  introduced  by  the  democrats  to  kill  time  and  stave 
off  a  vote  upon  the  appropriations  for  the  support  of  the  State 
Government.  He  said : 

MR.  SPEAKER  : — I  can  sit  in  my  seat  no  longer  and  see  such 
by-play  going  on.  These  men  are  trifling  with  the  best  inter- 
ests of  the  country.  They  should  'have  asses'  ears  to  set  off 
their  heads,  or  they  are  traitors  and  secessionists  at  heart. 

I  say  that  there  are  traitors  and  secessionists  at  heart  in  this 
senate.  Their  actions  prove  it.  Their  speeches  prove  it. 
Their  gibes  and  laughter  and  cheers  here  nightly,  when  their 
speakers  get  up  to  denounce  the  war  and  the  administration, 
prove  it. 

I  can  sit  here  no  longer  and  not  tell  these  traitors  what  I 
think  of  them.  And  while  so  telling  them,  I  am  responsible, 
myself,  for  what  I  say.  I  stand  upon  my  own  bottom.  I  am 
ready  to  meet  any  man  on  this  floor  in  any  manner  from  a  pin's 
point  to  the  mouth  of  a  cannon,  upon  this  charge  against  these 
traitors.  [Tremendous  applause  from  the  galleries.]  I  am  an 

38695,'i 


old  man  of  sixty-five.  I  came  to  Illinois  a  poor  boy.  I  have 
made  a  little  something  for  myself  and  family.  I  pay  three 
thousand  dollars  a  year  in  taxes.  I  am  willing  to  pay  six  thou- 
sand, aye,  twelve  thousand,  [great  cheering,  the  old  gentleman 
striking  the  desk  with  a  blow  that  would  knock  down  a  bullock, 
and  causing  the  inkstand  to  fly  in  the  air,]  aye,  I  am  willing 
to  pay  my  whole  fortune,  and  then  give  my  life  to  save  my 
country  from  these  traitors  that  are  seeking  to  destroy  it. 
[Tremendous  applause,  which  the  Speaker  could  not  control.] 

Mr.  Speaker,  you  must  excuse  me.  I  could  not  sit  longer 
in  my  seat  and  calmly  listen  to  these  traitors.  My  heart,  that 
feels  for  my  poor  country,  would  not  let  me.  My  heart,  that 
cries  out  for  the  lives  of  our  brave  volunteers  in  the  field,  that 
these  traitors  at  home  are  destroying  by  thousands,  would  not 
let  me.  My  heart,  that  bleeds  for  the  widows  and  orphans  at 
home,  would  not  let  me.  Yes,  these  traitors  and  villains  in 
this  senate  [striking  his  clenched  fist  on  the  desk  with  a  blow 
that  made  the  senate  ring  again],  are  killing  my  neighbors' 
boys  now  fighting  in  the  field.  I  dare  to  say  this  to  these 
traitors  right  here,  and  I  am  responsible  for  what  I  say  to  any 
one  or  all  of  them.  [Cheers.]  Let  them  come  on  now  right 
here.  I  am  sixty-five  years  old,  and  I  have  made  up  my  mind 
to  risk  my  life  right  here,  on  this  floor,  for  my  country.  [Mr. 
Funk's  seat  is  near  the  lobby  railing,  and  a  crowd  collected 
around  him,  evidently  with  the  intention  of  protecting  him 
from  violence,  if  necessary.  The  last  announcement  was  re- 
ceived with  great  cheering,  and  I  saw  many  an  eye  flash  and 
many  a  countenance  grow  radiant  with  the  light  of  defiance.] 

These  men  sneered  at  Colonel  Mack  a  few  days  since.  He 
is  a  small  man.  But  I  am  a  large  man.  I  am  ready  to  meet 
any  of  them  in  place  of  Colonel  Mack.  I  am  large  enough  for 
them,  and  I  hold  myself  ready  for  them  now  and  at  any  time. 
[Cheers  from  the  galleries.] 

Mr.  Speaker,  these  traitors  on  this  floor  should  be  provided 
with  hempen  collars.  They  deserve  hanging,  I  say  [raising 
his  voice  and  violently  striking  the  desk],  the  country  would 
be  better  off  swinging  them  up.  I  go  for  hanging  them,  and 


I  dare  to  tell  them  so,  right  here  to  their  traitorous  faces. 
Traitors  should  he  hung.  It  would  he  the  salvation  of  the 
country  to  hang  them.  For  that  reason  I  must  rejoice  at  it. 
[Tremendous  cheering.]  Mr.  Speaker,  I  heg  pardon  of  the 
gentlemen  in  this  senate  who  are  not  traitors,  but  true  loyal 
men,  for  what  I  have  said.  I  only  intend  it  and  mean  it  for 
secessionists  at  heart.  They  are  here  in  this  senate.  I  see 
them  gibe,  and  smirk,  and  grin  at  the  true  Union  man.  Must 
I  defy  them  ?  I  stand  here  ready  for  them,  and  dare  them  to 
come  on.  [Great  cheering.]  What  man,  with  the  heart  of  a 
patriot,  could  stand  this  treason  any  longer  ?  I  have  stood  it 
long  enough.  I  will  stand  it  no  more.  [Cheers.]  I  denounce 
these  men  and  their  aiders  and  abettors  as  rank  traitors  and 
secessionists.  Hell  itself  could  not  spew  out  a  more  traitorous 
crew  than  some  of  the  men  that  disgrace  this  legislature,  this 
State,  and  this  country.  For  myself,  I  protest  against  and 
denounce  their  treasonable  acts.  I  have  voted  against  their 
measures :  I  will  do  so  to  the  end.  I  will  denounce  them  as 
long  as  God  gives  me  breath ;  and  I  am  ready  to  meet  the 
traitors  themselves,  here  or  anywhere,  and  fight  them  to  the 
death.  [Prolonged  cheers  and  shouts.] 

I  said  I  paid  three  thousand  dollars  a  year  taxes.  I  do  not 
say  it  to  brag  of  it.  It  is  my  duty ;  yes,  Mr.  Speaker,  my 
privilege  to  do  it.  But  some  of  these  traitors  here,  who  are 
working  night  and  day  to  put  their  miserable  little  bills  and 
claims  through  the  legislature,  to  take  money  out  of  the  pockets 
of  the  people,  are  talking  about  high  taxes.  They  are  hypo- 
crites as  well  as  traitors.  I  heard  some  of  them  talking  about 
high  taxes  in  this  way  who  do  not  pay  five  dollars  to  the  sup- 
port of  the  government.  I  denounce  them  as  hypocrites  as 
well  as  traitors.  [Cheers.] 

The  reason  they  pretend  to  be  afraid  of  high  taxes  is  that 
they  do  not  want  to  vote  money  for  the  relief  of  the  soldiers. 
They  want  to  embarrass  the  government  and  stop  the  war. 
They  want  to  aid  the  secessionists  to  conquer  our  boys  in  the 
field.  They  care  about  high  taxes  !  They  are  picayune  men 
anyhow,  and  pay  no  taxes  at  all,  and  never  did,  and  never  hope 
or  expect  to.  This  is  an  excuse  of  traitors.  [Cheers.] 


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Mr.  Speaker,  excuse  me.  I  feel  for  my  country,  in  this  her 
hour  of  danger,  from  the  tips  of  my  toes  to  the  ends  of  my 
hair.  That  is  the  reason  I  speak  as  I  do.  I  cannot  help  it, 
I  am  bound  to  tell  these  people  to  their  teeth  what  they  are, 
and  what  the  people,  the  true  Itjyal  people,  think  of  them. 
[Tremendous  cheering.  The  Speaker  rapped  upon  his  desk, 
apparently  to  stop  it,  but  really  to  add  to  its  volume,  for  I 
could  see  by  his  flushed  cheek  and  flashing  eye  that  his  heart 
was  with  the  brave  and  loyal  old  gentleman.] 

Mr.  Speaker,  I  have  said  my  say :  I  am  no  speaker.  This 
is  the  only  speech  I  have  made,  and  I  do  not  know  that  it  de- 
serves to  be  called  a  speech.  I  could  not  sit  still  any  longer 
and  see  these  scoundrels  and  traitors  work  out  their  hellish 
schemes  to  destroy  the  Union.  They  have  my  sentiments ;  let 
them  one  and  all  make  the  most  of  them.  1  am  ready  to  back 
up  all  I  say,  and,  I  repeat  it,  to  meet  these  traitors  in  any 
manner  they  may  choose,  from  a  pin's  point  to  the  mouth  of  a 
cannon.  [Tremendous  applause,  during  which  the  old  gentle- 
man sat  down,  after  he  had  given  the  desk  a  parting  whack 
which  sounded  loud  above  the  din  of  cheers  and  clapping  of 
hands.] 

I  never  before  witnessed  so  much  excitement  in  an  assembly. 
Mr.  Funk  spoke  with  a  force  of  natural  eloquence,  with  a  con- 
viction and  truthfulness,  with  a  fervor  and  pathos,  which  wrought 
up  the  galleries  and  even  members  on  the  floor  to  the  highest 
pitch  of  excitement.  His  voice  was  heard  in  the  stores  that 
surround  the  square,  and  the  people  came  flocking  in  from  all 
quarters.  In  five  minutes  he  had  an  audience  that  packed  the 
hall  to  its  utmost  capacity.  After  he  had  concluded,  the  loyal 
members  and  spectators  rushed  up  and  took  him  by  the  hand 
to  congratulate  him.  The  disloyal  arid  Southern  sympathizers 
said  nothing,  but  evidently  felt  the  castigation  they  were  receiv- 
ing most  keenly,  as  might  be  seen  from  their  blanched  cheeks 
and  restless  and  uneasy  glances. 


A  VOICE  FROM  THE  ARMY 

OX    THE 

OPPOSITION  TO  THE  GOVEENMENT, 


CAMP  NEAR  BELLE  PLAIN, 

March  12th,  1863. 

A  meeting  of  the  officers  and  soldiers  of  the  One  hundred 
and  fiftieth  Regiment  Pennsylvania  Volunteers  was  held  at  the 
regimental  headquarters  on  the  llth  day  of  March,  1863,  in 
pursuance  of  the  following  call  signed  by  all  the  officers  of  the 
regiment : 

"  The  undersigned,  officers  of  the  One  hundred  and  fiftieth 
Regiment  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  respectfully  request  Col- 
onel Wister,  commanding  the  regiment,  to  call  a  meeting  for 
the  purpose  of  expressing  our  earnest  loyalty  and  devotion  to 
our  country,  and  our  detestation  of  the  Northern  .traitors  now 
endeavoring  to  paralyze  the  efforts  of  the  army  in  the  field, 
and  insidiously  to  overthrow  their  country's  cause." 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Huidekoper  was  called  to  the  chair,  and 
Adjutajit  R.  1^  Ashhurst  appointed  secretary. 

The  object  of  the  meeting  having  been  stated  by  Major 
Chamberlin,  after  appropriate  and  patriotic  remarks  by  Col- 
onel Wister,  Adjutant  Ashhurst,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Huide- 
4koper,  Private  Philip  Hammer,  Co.  A.,  Lieutenant  William  P. 
Dougal,  Co.  D.,  and  Quartermaster  A.  S.  Voorhis,  the  follow- 
ing preamble  and  resolutions,  offered  by  Major  Chamberlin, 
were  unanimously  adopted  amid  great  enthusiasm  : 

Whereas,  After  nearly  two  years  of  the  most  patriotic  sacri- 
fices on  the  part  of  our  people,  and  the  most  desperate  trials 
and  struggles  on  the  part  of  our  army  to  restore  our  shattered 
Union  and  maintain  our  national  honor,  our  Government  finds 
itself  assailed  by  a  class  of  persons  at  home  who  would  yield 
it,  Judas-like,  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy,  or  sully  it  by  a 


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dishonorable  compromise  with  the  hosts  of  treason,  and  who 
are  even  now  trying  to  induce  the  masses  to  resist  its  lawful 
authority  in  order  the  sooner  to  gain  their  hellish  ends  ;  there- 
fore, 

Resolved,  That  we  hereby  express  our  firm  and  unalterable 
devotion  to  our  Government  and  its  laws,  and  declare  our  de- 
termination to  stand  by  it  at  all  hazards,  pledging  to  the 
restoration  of  its  entire  authority,  "our  lives,  our  fortunes,  and 
our  sacred  honor." 

Resolved,  That  we  look  upon  all  proposals,  from  whatever 
source,  to  give  up  this  struggle  on  any  other  terms  than  the 
unconditional  submission  of  the  traitors  in  arms  against  their 
country,  as  disgraceful  to  those  who  originate,  and  to  those 
who,  for  a  moment,  lend  an  ear  to  them. 

Resolved,  That  we  condemn  and  repudiate  as  unworthy  sons 
of  their  country  those  who,  staying  at  home  in  the  North,  are 
striving  to  cripple  the  hands  of  their  country's  defenders ; 
who,  under  the  garb  of  a  false  patriotism,  and  an  assumed  zeal 
for  the  Constitution,  cavil  at  all  measures,  calculated  to  pros- 
trate the  rebellion,  and  who  endeavor  to  hold  back  and  para- 
lyze the  strong  arm  of  right,  now  outstretched  to  crush  the 
foul  treason  which  attacks  the  life  of  the  nation. 

Resolved,  That  we  have  no  sympathy  or  feeling  in  common 
with  those  who,  from  real  or  pretended  admiration  of  any  man 
or  general,  would  make  their  earnestness  in  their  country's 
cause,  or  perhaps  their  loyalty,  dependent  on,  or  subordinate  * 
to,  their  personal  feelings ;  that  we  are  ready  and  anxious  to 
fight  for  our  country  under  whatever  commander  we  may  be. 
placed,  and  under  none  with  greater  alacrity  than  our  present 
commander-in-chief. 

Resolved,  That  as  we  believe  that  "  fighting  for  Southern 
rights  "  means  nothing  more  than  warring  for  the  extension  of 
slavery,  which  we  regard  alike  as  a  curse  to  the  land,  and  a 
great  moral  wrong,  we  hail  with  joy  the  President's  proclama- 
tion doing  away  with  that  institution  in  every  State  in  which 
rebellion  exists,  and  hope  soon  to  see  it  forever  blotted  from 
our  soil. 


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Resolved,  That  our  feeling  towards  traitors,  both  North  and 
South,  is  one  of  implacable  hatred,  and  that,  while  this  army 
has  bullets  for  those  at  the  South,  it  has  also  heels  broad 
enough  and  heavy  enough  to  crush  the  vile  "copperheads"  of 
the  North  if  they  persist  in  their  insidious  attempts  to  weaken 
and  overthrow  the  Government. 

Major  Chamberlin,  Captain  Widdis,  Co.  A.,  Captain  Rei- 
singer,  Co.  H.,  Quartermaster  Voorhis,  and  Adjutant  Ash- 
hurst,  were  appointed  a  committee  for  the  publication  of  these 
resolutions. 

On  motion,  adjourned. 

H.  S.  HUIDEKOPER, 

Lieutenant-Colonel  150th  Regiment  P.  V.,  Chairman. 

R.  L.  ASHHURST. 
Adjutant  150th  Regiment  P.  V.,  Secretary. 


THE  RIGHT  DOCTRINE. 

We  copy  from  the  ''Journal  of  Commerce"  the  following 
editorial  remarks : 

Avoid  every  form  of  revolution.  Scout  the  very  idea  of 
revolution.  There  is  no  right  of  revolution  which  you  can 
plead  to  justify  such  a  course.  If  one  man  is  wronged  by 
revolution,  then  the  revolution  is  not  right,  nor  can  any  man 
determine,  in  a  land  like  this,  how  great  must  be  the  majority 
to  justify  and  make  right  a  revolution.  Our  system  itself  is  a 
safeguard  against  revolutions. 

Recognize  the  authority  of  law  everywhere.  Respect  the 
rulers  of  your  land.  Sustain  the  administration  of  your  gov- 
ernment to  the  full  extent  of  its  constitutional  powers.  Sustain 
the  courts  of  your  country,  which  are  parts  of  the  government, 
independent  in  their  province. 


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ON  FOREIGN  INTERFERENCE. 


"  Who  would  be  free,  themselves  must  strike  the  blow." 

THE  PROTEST  OF   THE  PEOPLE  OF    THE  UNITED 
STATES  AGAINST  FOREIGN  INTERFERENCE. 

Whereas,  It  appears  from  the  diplomatic  correspondence 
submitted  to  Congress  that  a  proposition  friendly  in  form, 
looking  to  a  pacification  through  foreign  mediation,  has  been 
made  to  the  United  States  by  the  Emperor  of  the  French,  and 
promptly  declined  by  the  President ;  and  whereas,  the  idea  of 
mediation  or  intervention  in  some  shape  may  be  regarded  by 
foreign  governments  as  practicable,  and  such  governments, 
through  this  misunderstanding,  may  be  led  to  proceedings 
tending  to  embarrass  the  friendly  relations  which  now  exist  be- 
tween them  and  the  United  States ;  and  whereas,  in  order  to 
remove  for  the  future  all  chance  of  misunderstanding  on  this 
subject,  and  to  secure  for  the  United  States  the  full  enjoyment 
of  that  freedom  from  foreign  interference  which  is  one  of  the 
highest  rights  of  independent  States,  it  seems  fit  that  Congress 
should  declare  its  conviction  thereon ;  therefore, 

Resolved,  The  House  of  Representatives  concurring,  that 
while  in  times  past  the  United  States  have  sought  and  accepted 
the  friendly,  mediation  or  arbitration  of  foreign  Powers  by  the 
pacific  adjustment  of  international  questions  where  the  United 
States  were  the  party  of  the  one  part  and  some  other  sovereign 
Power  the  party  of  the  other  part ;  and  while  they  are  not  dis- 
posed to  misconstrue  the  natural  and  humane  desire  of  foreign 
Powers  to  aid  in  arresting  domestic  troubles  which,  widening 
in  their  influence,  have  afflicted  other  countries,  especially  in 
view  of  the  circumstance,  deeply  regretted  by  the  American 
people,  that  the  blow  aimed  by  the  rebellion  at  the  nation's 


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life  has  fallen  heavily  upon  the  laboring  population  of  Europe ; 
yet,  notwithstanding  these  things,  Congress  cannot  hesitate  to 
regard  every  proposition  of  foreign  interference  in  the  present 
contest  as  so  far  unseasonable  and  inadmissible  that  its  only 
explanation  will  be  found  in  a  misunderstanding  of  the  true 
state  of  the  question  and  the  real  character  of  the  war  in  which 
the  Republic  is  engaged. 

Resolved,  That  the  United  States  are  now  struggling  with 
an  unprovoked  and  wicked  rebellion,  which  is  seeking  the  de- 
struction of  the  Republic,  that  it  may  build  up  a  new  power, 
whose  corner  stone,  according  to  the  confession  of  its  chiefs, 
shall  be  slavery.  That  for  the  suppression  of  this  rebellion, 
and  thus  to  save  the  Republic  and  to  prevent  the  establishment 
of  such  a  power,  the  National  Government  is  now  employing 
armies  and  fleets  in  full  faith  that  through  these  efforts  all  the 
purposes  of  the  conspirators  and  rebels  will  be  crushed ;  that 
while  thus  engaged  in  this  struggle,  on  which  so  much  depends, 
any  proposition  from  a  foreign  Power,  whatever  form  it  may  take, 
having  for  its  object  the  arrest  of  these  efforts,  is  just  in  pro- 
portion to  its  influence  an  encouragement  to  the  rebellion  and 
to  its  declared  principles,  and  on  this  account  is  calculated  to 
prolong  and  embitter  the  conflict,  to  cause  increased  expendi- 
tures of  blood  and  treasure,  and  to  postpone  the  much  desired 
day  of  peace.  That  with  these  convictions,  and  not  doubting 
that  every  such  proposition,  although  made  with  good  intent, 
is  injurious  to  the  national  interests,  Congress  will  be  obliged 
to  look  upon  any  further  attempts  in  the  same  direction  as  an 
unfriendly  act,  which  it  earnestly  deprecates,  to  the  end  that 
nothing  mav  occur  abroad  to  strengthen  rebellion  or  to  weaken 
those  relations  of  good-will  with  foreign  Powers  which  the 
United  States  are  happy  to  cultivate. 

Resolved,  That  the  rebellion  from  its  beginning,  and  far 
back  even  in  the  conspiracy  which  preceded  its  outbreak,  was 
encouraged  by  the  hope  of  support  from  foreign  Powers.  That 
its  chiefs  frequently  boasted  that  the  people  of  Europe  were  so 
far  dependent  upon  regular  supplies  of  the  great  southern 
staple  that,  sooner  or  later,  their  governments  would  be  con- 


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strained  to  take  sides  with  the  rebellion  in  some  effective  form, 
even  to  the  extent  of  forcible  intervention,  if  the  milder  form 
did  not  prevail.  That  the  rebellion  is  now  sustained  by  this 
hope,  which  every  proposition  of  foreign  interference  quickens 
anew,  and  that  without  this  life-giving  support  it  must  soon 
yield  to  the  just  and  paternal  authority  of  the  National  Govern- 
ment. That,  considering  these  things,  which  are  aggravated 
by  the  motive  of  the  resistance  thus  encouraged,  the  United 
States  regret  that  foreign  Powers  have  not  frankly  told  the 
chiefs  of  the  rebellion  that  the  work  in  which  they  are  engaged 
is  hateful,  and  that  a  new  government,  such  as  they  seek  to 
found,  with  slavery  as  its  acknowledged  corner-stone,  and  with 
no  other  declared  object  of  separate  existence,  is  so  far  shock- 
ing to  civilization  and  the  moral  sense  of  mankind,  that  it 
must  not  expect  welcome  or  recognition  in  the  commonwealth 
of  nations. 

Resolved.  That  the  United  States,  confident  in  the  justice 
of  their  cause,  which  is  the  cause  also  of  good  government  and 
human  rights  everywhere  among  men,  anxious  for  the  speedy 
restoration  of  peace  which  shall  secure  tranquillity  at  home 
and  remove  all  occasions  of  complaint  abroad,  and  awaiting, 
with  well-assured  trust,  the  final  suppression  of  the  rebellion, 
through  which  all  these  things,  rescued  from  present  danger, 
will  be  secured  forever,  and  the  Republic,  one  and  indivisible, 
triumphant  over  its  enemies,  will  continue  to  stand  an  example 
to  mankind,  hereby  announce,  as  their  unalterable  purpose, 
that  the  war  will  be  vigorously  prosecuted,  according  to  the 
humane  principle  of  Christian  States,  until  the  rebellion  shall 
be  suppressed,  and  they  reverently  invoke  upon  their  cause  the 
blessings  of  Almighty  God. 

Resolved,  That  the  President  be  requested  to  transmit  a 
copy  of  these  Resolutions,  through  the  Secretary  of  State,  to 
the  Ministers  of  the  United  States  in  foreign  countries,  that 
the  declaration  and  protest  herein  set  forth  may  be  communi- 
cated by  them  to  the  governments  to  which  they  are  accredited. 

All  of  which  were  unanimously  adopted. 


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FOR  THE  CROAKERS. 

Suppose  the  rebels  held  Ohio,  as  we  do  Tennessee,  Iowa  and 
Wisconsin,  as  we  do  Missouri  and  Arkansas,  Massachusetts 
with  Boston  as  we  do  Louisiana  with  New  Orleans,  the  shores 
of  Connecticut  as  we  do  that  of  North  Carolina,  the  coast  of 
New  Jersey  as  we  do  that  of  South  Carolina,  and  besides  Bos- 
ton the  harbors  of  Philadelphia,  Newport  and  Portsmouth,  as 
we  do  those  of  Norfolk,  Pensacola  and  Savannah  ;  suppose  them 
furthermore  to  have  command  of  the  Mississippi  up  to  St.  Louis 
as  we  have  of  it  down  to  Memphis,  and  to  be  laying  siege  to 
Pittsburg  as  we  are  to  Vicksburg ;  suppose  them  to  have  nearly 
five  hundred  vessels,  including  more  than  a  dozen  monitors  and 
other  iron-clads,  and  to  be  blockading  .the  whole  of  our  coast 
and  preparing  with  immense  strength  to  attack  New  York  and 
Portland,  as  we  are  preparing  to  attack  Charleston  and  Mobile; 
suppose  them  to  have  an  army  half  larger  than  our  own  hover- 
ing upon  every  exposed  point  upon  our  contracted  lines,  while 
we  by  conscription  had  dragged  into  the  army  every  able- 
bodied  man,  and  they  had  not  begun  to  draft ;  suppose  that  by 
unrestricted  commerce  with  all  parts  of  the  world  they  were 
able  to  supply  themselves  readily  with  all  the  comforts  and 
luxuries  of  which  the  rigid  blockade  was  depriving  us ;  suppose 
all  this, — and  we  have  but  faintly  represented  the  disadvanta- 
ges under  which  they  labor  in  the  contest, — what,  we  pray, 
would  be  the  state  of  mind  of  these  wretched  men  who  load 
the  air  and  make  day  and  night  alike  hideous  with  their  whin- 
ings  and  croakings  ?  Would  not  their  knees  smite  with  fear 
and  their  voices  fail  them  ? 

The  condition  in  which  we  have  for  illustration  imagined 
ourselves,  is  really  not  so  bad  as  that  in  which  the  rebels  are 
to-day.  And  yet,  craven-hearted  men  are  found,  who  tell  us 
that  we  must  give  up,  that  it  is  of  no  use  to  push  on,  that  we 
must  confess  that  we  are  whipped,  and  tamely  succumb.  And 
such  men  are  not  ashamed  to  walk  about  the  streets  and  call 
themselves  American  citizens,  descendants  of  revolutionary 


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heroes.  What  a  descent,  indeed  !  Away  with  the  folly,  or 
worse  than  folly,  that  they  talk.  See  the  brave  work  that  has 
been  done  already.  See  our  gathering  hosts  hanging  like 
clouds  of  destruction  over  Charleston  and  Vicksburg,  and  just 
about  to  give  their  terrible  blows,  and  have  new  courage. 
Cherish  a  faith  consistent  at  least  with  obvious  facts,  if  you 
cannot  attain  to  one  altogether  worthy  of  the  founders  of  the 
republic. — Providence  Journal. 


From  the  Boston  Daily  Advertiser. 

THE  WORDS  OF  A  PATRIOT  SOLDIER. 

The  gallant  General  Rousseau,  who  may  be  said  to  have  led 
Kentucky  into  the  field,  made  a  speech  at  Lancaster,  Penn- 
sylvania, in  which  he  said  : — 

"  My  political  creed  is  but  a  minute  long.  I  am  for  the 
government  of  my  fathers  and  the  friends  of  that  government, 
and  I  am  against  the  enemies  of  that  government,  and  all  their 
friends  both  North  and  South." 

Giving  a  timely  warning  to  his  hearers,  he  added : — 

"  No  matter  what  your  political  predilections  may  be,  unite 
to  save  the  country,  and  after  that  settle  questions  of  policy. 
Let  not  your  differences  of  opinion  weaken  the  arms  of  the 
brave  men  who  are  fighting  that  you  may  be  free.  In  the 
Army  of  the  Cumberland,  in  which  I  have  the  honor  of  com- 
manding a  division,  officers  and  men  know  only  the  cause  of 
their  country ;  all  are  united  in  a  common  work ;  no  dissen- 
sions or  jealousies  weaken  their  force." 


CROMWELL  ON  DESTRUCTIVE  CONSERVATISM. 

In  a  speech  to  Parliament  in  1656,  the  Great  Protector, 
defending  his  administration,  touched  upon  a  doctrine  which 
is  popular  just  now  with  the  friends  of  secession  and  the  ene- 


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mies  of  the  national  life,  and  exposed  its  fallacy,  almost  as  if 
by  anticipation : — 

"  If  nothing  should  ever  be  done,"  said  he,  "  but  what  is 
'according  to  Law,'  the  throat  of  the  Nation  may  be  cut  while 
we  send  for  some  one  to  make  a  Law !  Therefore,  certainly 
it  is  a  pitiful  beastly  notion  to  think,  though  it  be  for  ordinary 
government  to  live  by  law  and  rule,  yet  if  a  government  in  ex- 
traordinary circumstances  go  beyond  the  law  even  for  self- 
preservation,  it  is  to  be  clamored  at  and  blattered  at.  When 
matters  of  necessity  come,  then,  without  guilt,  extraordinary 
remedies  may  be  applied. 

"  And  I  must  say  I  do  not  know  one  action  of  this  govern- 
ment, no  not  one,  but  it  hath  been  in  order  to  the  peace  and 
safety  of  this  Nation." 


COUNSEL  OF  A  LOYAL  DEMOCRAT. 

"  My  hearers,  we  will  all  stand  by  the  Government — will  we 
not  ?  Although  some  of  us  are  Democrats  and  some  Republi- 
cans and  some  Abolitionists,  we  will  nevertheless  lock  hands  as 
Americans — will  we  not  ?  We  will  all  of  us,  notwithstanding 
our  party  divisions  and  party  interests,  generously  and  patri- 
otically band  ourselves  together  to  «rush  this  causeless  and  ac- 
cursed rebellion — will  we  not?  Would  that  we  might  this 
night  feel  more  deeply  than  ever  that  it  is  not  by  the  rebels 
that  we  can  be  conquered,  but  only  by  ourselves.  Nothing  is 
truer  than  that  the  life  of  the  rebellion  is  in  disunion  at  the 
North.  Nothing  is  truer  than  that  it  would  find  its  death  in 
union  at  the  North. 

"  Ere  taking  my  seat  let  me  remind  you  of  our  duty  to  stand 
by  our  army — by  the  brave  men  who  have  gone  out  from 
among  us  to  suffer  every  hardship  and  to  face  every  peril  in 
the  high  and  holy  work  of  suppressing  the  most  nefarious  of  all 
conspiracies.  But  the  way  to  stand  by  them  is  to  stand  by 

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the  Government  they  serve.  To  desert  the  G-overnment  is  to 
desert  them.  Our  soldiers  bid  us  stand  by  the  Government. 
They  are  afflicted- that  so  many  of  us  do  not.  They  are  indig- 
nant at  the  divisions  by  which  we  encourage  the  foe,  and  make 
him  abler  to  drive  back  and  slaughter  our  friends.  Such  heart- 
lessness  toward  themselves  as  well  as  toward  the  country  is 
very  unlike  that  reward  of  sympathy,  gratitude  and  love  on 
which  they  counted  when  they  went  forth  to  fight  her  battles. 
Our  slain  soldiers,  could  they  speak,  would  bid  us  stand  by  the 
Government.  Our  tens  of  thousands  of  broken  families,  weeping 
over  those  who  went  to  the  army  never  more  to  return  from  it, 
bid  us  stand  by  the  Government.  The  enlightened  friends  of 
freedom  and  righteousness  the  earth  over  bid  us  stand  by  the 
Government.  And,  loud  above  all,  comes  down  the  voice  out 
of  Heaven :  '  Stand  by  the  Government !  Stand  by  the 
Government !'  " 

We  commend  this  language  to  universal  attention.  It  is  the 
language  of  a  loyal  and  patriotic  heart, — of  a  man  who  proba- 
bly has  as  many  prejudices,  as  many  peculiar  opinions,  as  any 
other  man  living — but  who  throws  them  all  aside  from  a  senti- 
ment of  supreme  devotion  to  the  safety  and  welfare  of  our 
common  country.  Would  that  all  were  like  him  ! 


PUSILLANIMOUS  PEACE. 

War  never  leaves,  where  it  found  a  nation.  It  is  never  to 
be  entered  into  without  mature  deliberation :  not  a  deliberation 
lengthened  out  into  a  perplexing  indecision,  but  a  deliberation 
leading  to  a  sure  and  fixed  judgment.  When  so  taken  up,  it 
is  not  to  be  abandoned  without  reasons  as  valid,  as  fully  and  as 
extensively  considered.  Peace  may  be  made  as  unadvisedly 
as  war.  Nothing  is  so  rash  as  fear ;  and  the  counsels  of 
pusillanimity  very  rarely  put  off,  whilst  they  are  always  sure 
to  aggravate,  the  evils  from  which  they  would  fly. — Burke. 


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